In a speech from Calvin Coolidge in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926 he said:
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress, can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward; toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
In the political climate we face today, these words can never ring more true.
Let this be an encouraging reminder that no matter how tough the battle may seem to protect our rights and their truths, by doing so it is WE who push for progress. And to do anything different is to move backwards.
On this Independence Day The Kevin Jackson Network is thankful for our freedoms and for those who fight with us to preserve them.
May God bless you and may God bless this great nation.
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